PART IX. 



FARMERS' INSTITUTES IN IOWA. 



PROVISION FOR THE ENCOURAGExMENT OF FARMERS' INSTI- 

 TUTES IN IOWA." 



Farmers' Institutes — State aid— appropriation. When forty or more farmers of 

 a county organize a farmers' county institute, with a president, secretary, treasurer and 

 an executive committee of not less than three outside of such officers, and hold an insti- 

 tute, remaining in session not less than two days in each year, which institute may be 

 adjourned from time to time and place to place in said county, the county auditor, upon 

 proof of such organization and such institute having been held, together with an itemized 

 statement, showing the manner in which the monev herein appropriated has been ex- 

 pended, shall certify the same to the auditor of Srate, who shall remit to the treasurer of 

 such county his warrant for not to exceed seveuty-five dollars, and there is hereby appro- 

 priated, cut of the moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not to 

 exceed seventy-five dollars annually for such institute work in each county. No officer of 

 any such farmers' institute shall receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation from 

 said State fund for services as such officer. (Code Supplement, 1902. Chapter 3, Section 

 1675. ) 



OFFICERS OF COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTES IN IOWA 



1904-1905. 



Adams— President, Jerome Smith, Corning, Iowa; Secretary, Geo. E. 

 Bliss, Corning, Iowa. 



Audubon — President, H. F. Jones, Hamlin, Iowa; Secretary A. H. 

 Edwards, Audubon, Iowa. 



Benton— President, Fred McCulloch, Hartwick, Iowa; Secretary, G. R. 

 Ahrens, Belle Plaine, Iowa. 



Black Hawk— President, Chas. E. Hearst, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Secre- 

 tary, H. A, Smucker, Waterloo, Iowa. 



Bremer— President, E. C. Bennett, Tripoli, Iowa; Secretary, L. C. 

 Oberdorf, Waverly, Iowa. 



Buchanan — President, W. H. Warburton, Independence, Iowa; Secre- 

 tary, J. N. Muncey, Jesup, Iowa. 



♦ See page 96 of this report, for section of Code governing representation of institutes 

 at the annual agicultural convention. 



